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angeladaly

@nidhalaigh.bsky.social

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Socio-legal academic of data & tech on a career break Digital rights/commons, environment, & art/culture Normally in Scotland/Alba, often out and about Likes clean air Own views She/her www.angeladaly.wordpress.com

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angeladaly @nidhalaigh.bsky.social · Sep 3

In our new paper, we identify the limits of the UK's AI health policy:

1️⃣ Disproportionate focus on growth

2️⃣ Sidelining of regulation, ethics & public trust

3️⃣ Underestimationg true scale & cost of NHS digital transformation

4️⃣ Scant consideration of environmental impact

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Beyond techno-optimism: four critical limitations in the UK’s AI policy for health care

In 2015, the UK Government published Artificial Intelligence: Opportunities and Implications for the Future of Decision Making ,1 initiating a pattern of biennial artificial intelligence (AI) reports ...

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Gregk Foley @gregk.co.uk · 13d

Sure, let’s collate every member of the public’s personal and private information into one giant database right before handing whole swathes of the state over to multinational corporations using an emergent technology with numerous security issues

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Jaakko Husa @husajaakko.bsky.social · 18d

Doing interdisciplinary comparative law

Dialogue between two persons. One person claims to do interdisciplinary comparative law but the other one requires them to be honest. Finally they admit that they actually only add random social science stuff in footnotes.

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Eerke Boiten @eerkeboiten.bsky.social · Sep 8

No surprise that a hidden meeting (i.e. not on official record) between Thiel and Johnson/Cummings in 2019, just before Palantir captured NHS data, is to me the most interesting find in Boris files so far. www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...

Johnson and Cummings’ secret meeting with Palantir founder revealed

Non-disclosure of apparent meeting a year before firm won NHS role raises serious questions over transparency

www.theguardian.com

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Academy of Social Sciences @acadsocsciences.bsky.social · Sep 8

New Fellow @nidhalaigh.bsky.social is Professor of Law & Technology at @dundee.ac.uk! Angela’s research explores the interaction between legal frameworks and new digital technologies, in areas such as evidence, sector specific regulation and human rights. ➡️ acss.org.uk/news/the-aca...

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angeladaly @nidhalaigh.bsky.social · Sep 8

Solidarity to you all ✊

angeladaly @nidhalaigh.bsky.social · Sep 8

Very honoured to be among them.

Academy of Social Sciences @acadsocsciences.bsky.social · Sep 8

We are delighted to welcome 63 leading social scientists who highlight the importance of the #socialsciences in understanding & tackling some of society’s most pressing challenges to our Fellowship. Look out for some of our new Fellows later today. See the full list acss.org.uk/news/the-aca...

angeladaly @nidhalaigh.bsky.social · Sep 6

So nice to get some more Institute of Network Culture goodies today, book aesthetics always on point.

Photo of two books: on the left, Post-Communist Grounds: In Search if the Commons, edited by Neda Genova with a purple and green collage cover; and on the right, .expub: Exploring Expanded Publishing, edited by Tommaso Campagna, Marta Ceccarelli & Carolina Valente Pinto, black text on an orange background cover.

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Dundee UCU @ducuuo.bsky.social · Sep 3

Visit our website, and read about our strong opposition to the recently rejected University Recovery Plan: a plan created by the short-term team in charge at University of Dundee.

sites.dundee.ac.uk/ducu/

#SaveHE #SaveDundeeUni

Dundee University and College Union

sites.dundee.ac.uk

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angeladaly @nidhalaigh.bsky.social · Sep 3

Beyond techno-optimism: four critical limitations in the UK’s AI policy for health care

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angeladaly @nidhalaigh.bsky.social · Sep 1

Gross and genius!

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Maria Farrell @mariafarrell.bsky.social · Aug 30

“Although Microsoft is used up and down the UK by police and law enforcement bodies, so far only SPA – and now Police Scotland – have asked the important questions: Where does our data go? Do you have a map or data flow model? What assurances can you give us around our regulatory DPA Part 3 needs?"

Alastair Millar @skriptorium.info · Aug 30

Scottish police do not know where their sensitive data is going, because they trusted it to an American multinational (Microsoft) which simply refuses to tell them.

Remember this when the US screams about Europe wanting to regulate the big tech players.

Microsoft refuses to divulge data flows to Police Scotland | Computer Weekly

Tech giant Microsoft is refusing to divulge key information to Police Scotland about where the sensitive data it uploads to Office 365 will be processed, leaving the force unable to comply with UK-wid...

www.computerweekly.com

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angeladaly @nidhalaigh.bsky.social · Aug 29

In @uofglasgow.bsky.social today and fitting that I come across Ruth Ewan's Silent Agitator IWW sculpture.

Photo of large black and white clock sculpture outside new Glasgow Uni Advanced Research Centre building, with text on it 'organize now', 'organize right', 'time to organize'.

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The National @scotnational.bsky.social · Aug 26

Police Scotland have been urged to 'immediately abandon' plans to introduce facial recognition software for public surveillance by Amnesty International and 13 other advocacy groups

Police Scotland urged to 'immediately abandon' live facial recognition plans

www.thenational.scot

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angeladaly @nidhalaigh.bsky.social · Aug 24

Agree 100% with this motion to @snp.org national conference calling for Police Scotland not to invest in live facial recognition and its use should not be allowed in Scotland without new primary legislation which is compatible with human rights law & EU AI Act.

www.thenational.scot/news/2541206...

Police Scotland using live facial recognition 'not justifiable', SNP members say

POLICE Scotland's consideration to use live facial recognition technology is “not justifiable” and would be a “radical departure” from the…

www.thenational.scot

angeladaly @nidhalaigh.bsky.social · Aug 22

Carnival vibes for those of us elsewhere with Barrington Levy on KEXP - more dancing, less intrusive and racist facial recognition cameras!

www.youtube.com/watch?v=lfgZ...

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Matthew Lane @mattlane.bsky.social · Aug 21

You wouldn't use a VPN in the download a car meme format.

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Dundee UCU @ducuuo.bsky.social · Aug 19

You said there would be no redundancies on national television.

Then confirmed on 1st July to 1000 staff and @thecourier.co.uk there is no Plan ‘B’ for redundancies.

Then six weeks later it’s revealed your failed “recovery plan” wanted 190 compulsory redundancies.

m.youtube.com/watch?v=X3hF...

Scottish Government announces £40m bailout for university

YouTube video by STV News

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Dr Mark | 北马克 |🍉🇦🇺🇲🇾🇹🇭 @ajaanmark.bsky.social · Aug 19

How about we replace Chancellors, VCs and senior managers with chatbots? (They've already replaced themselves with AI but continue to collect the salary and make awful decisions) share.google/xLXvRgJsFPIz...

Universities must be reimagined for the AI age

Australia’s competitiveness depends on how quickly we can align education, technology and workforce development.

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The Guardian @theguardian.com · Aug 19

‘Too hungry to think, too weak to sit upright. Concentration slips away’: the struggle to stay focussed as an academic in Gaza

It is hard to keep the mind sharp when the body is thin and dehydrated, but solidarity is teaching starving students their thoughts still matter

www.theguardian.com

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William Duguid @williamduguid1.bsky.social · Aug 15

'This was the way the North coast of Caithness was militarised and not one single political voice was raised in opposition. No democratically elected representative of the people voiced concern. They still don’t.'
George Gunn, via @bellacaledonia.bsky.social

Dounreay In Extremis

DOUNREAY IN EXTREMIS: From The Province of the Cat by George Gunn. It is a relatively recent phenomenon – the metamorphosis of politicians from inspirational, sincere, wide-eyed dreamers, whose pri…

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angeladaly @nidhalaigh.bsky.social · Aug 12

I am loving this very posh protest!

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Dreamliner Again @entirelyharmless.bsky.social · Aug 12

UK gov: we want to build vast new data centres because something something AI and never mind the environmental cost.

Also UK gov: oh no! Water shortages! Quick, everyone delete a few emails!

Who put these chuds in charge? 🙄

The Journal @thejournal.ie · Aug 12

The UK government has urged people to delete old pictures and emails as 'data centres require vast amounts of water to cool their systems'.
http://jrnl.ie/6788643

UK government advises people to delete old photos and emails as England faces water shortfall

The UK government has urged people to delete old pictures and emails as ‘data centres require cast amounts of water to cool their systems’.

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Dundee UCU @ducuuo.bsky.social · Aug 12

The University of Dundee has announced it will defer the 1.4% national pay rise for staff in higher education.

With inflation above 3% this means hard working staff at the University will be getting at least a 3% real terms pay cut this year.

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angeladaly @nidhalaigh.bsky.social · Aug 12

Huge solidarity from Scotland to Dr Allen and you all fighting for your university against unaccountable out-of-control university 'leadership'.

angeladaly @nidhalaigh.bsky.social · Aug 11

Plus plenty of flags of proscribed terrorist paramilitary groups flying freely there.